NURS6521 wk 1 Assignment: Ethical and Legal Implications of Prescribing Drugs MA is an 85-year-old female living in a long-term care facility. She has significant cognitive decline, and her physician has even said that death is near with her other health issues including renal failure and CHF. She has been on blood thinners for years due to a valve replacement 20 years ago. She cries in agony with each fingerpick and can barely tolerate the lab draws if needed to check her INR. Is continual monitoring of the INR needed given her terminal status?

NURS6521 wk 1 Assignment: Ethical and Legal Implications of Prescribing Drugs MA is an 85-year-old female living in a long-term care facility. She has significant cognitive decline, and her physician has even said that death is near with her other health issues including renal failure and CHF. She has been on blood thinners for years due to a valve replacement 20 years ago. She cries in agony with each fingerpick and can barely tolerate the lab draws if needed to check her INR. Is continual monitoring of the INR needed given her terminal status?

Ethical and Legal Implications of Prescribing Drugs

Introduction 

In the process of delivery of care to patients, there are risks of medical errors occurring on some occasions that pose a concern on the process of recovery of the patient. The errors may in some instances cause fatalities. The use of drugs as per Reddy et al. (2020) may end up harming the patients and lead to ethical or legal consequences. Along these lines, a nurse is supposed to make the medical prescription in line with the legal and ethical standards of practice. The scenario under account is that of an 85-year-old patient who has been making use of blood thinners for the last 20 years following a valve replacement and she cannot tolerate lab draw if needed for checking her INR.

Ethical and Legal Implications

The ethical and legal implications in pharmacology include different stakeholders including the patients, family members, the staff prescribing the medication, and the staff dispensing the medication. The impact on pharmacists ethically is that there could be a risk of failure of the patient being informed fully about the errors that might have occurred in the dispensing or prescription of medication. The legal obligation of the patient affected is to ensure that the issue is reported as soon as it is identified. …